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/ 3 September 2004
Listening to Metropolitan Trading Company (MTC) CEO Keith Atkins, one might think the City of Johannesburg had brought its street traders under control.
British-born Atkins has inherited daunting challenges from Rory Robertshaw, the previous head of the council-owned MTC. After piloting the city’s first "modern" market in Yeoville’s Rockey Street for R5-million, Robertshaw called it quits.
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/ 3 September 2004
When Tokyo Sexwale sits down in the foyer of the Sandton Crowne Plaza hotel in Johannesburg to talk football, he lifts his right foot towards his chest and gesticulates while saying, "<i>Isoccer yimi</i> — I am soccer, <i>ngikhule ngiteka itennis</i> — I used to play with the tennis ball." Black business is taking corporate responsibility on to the soccer field.
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/ 3 September 2004
The number of Aids cases in Japan is slowly increasing, and the number of HIV-positive people in the country is estimated to be far higher than the number reported. In 2003 the government recorded 336 new Aids cases but only 640 new HIV cases, a number that was “far lower than expected.” Since Japan began tracking HIV/Aids cases in 1985, the government has recorded 2 892 Aids cases and 5 780 HIV cases.
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/ 3 September 2004
Richard Worthington’s reply to my report on electricity ("A dirty old soul") has the hallmarks of aggressive ideological writing typical of militant environmentalists. South Africa’s worst problem is poverty, not damage to the environment by coal mined and burned in power stations — at both stages according to modern best practice. Robin Friedland exercises his right to reply.
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/ 3 September 2004
The Palestinian armed response was a long time coming. When the Hamas founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was killed in an Israeli rocket attack in Gaza in March, the organisation responsible for most of the suicide bombings in Israel vowed that it would ”open the gates of hell”. Last week the Palestinians finally succeeded in getting two suicide bombers through, blowing up two buses. But these attacks are likely to backfire.
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/ 3 September 2004
With two crucial World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifiers coming up, Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter will have to find himself a consistent squad. Starting on Sunday against the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Bafana Bafana must get maximum points to keep them on top of the table.
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/ 3 September 2004
Next Sunday South Africa will play Bangladesh in the ICC Champions Trophy, and unless the cosmos is controlled by an excitable Bollywood screenwriter, an 11th consecutive one-day loss will be averted by Graeme Smith’s team, a ghastly record dodged, and perhaps a moment of clarity achieved.
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/ 3 September 2004
Marseille likes to bill itself ”a shock as much as a city”, but it was the predictability of Newcastle United’s defeat in the Stade Velodrome in the Uefa Cup semifinal second leg on May 6 — and the shocking reaction it provoked from fans — that ultimately resulted in Sir Bobby Robson reaching a dead end on Tyneside on Monday morning.
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/ 3 September 2004
A director of a Vanderbijlpark engineering company arrested for allegedly breaking laws on the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction will remain in custody until his bail application next Wednesday. Johan Andries Muller Meyer, dressed in a dark blue suit, said nothing during his brief appearance in court on Friday.
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/ 3 September 2004
Seven-time formula-one champion Michael Schumacher escaped uninjured on Thursday after a high-speed crash during a testing session. Schumacher’s Ferrari was seriously damaged in the crash, which was attributed to a problem with the back left tire.